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Chimpanzee, 2017 signed, dated and marked 'HW' (Halesworth: the location of Edwards foundry) bronze, edition 10/12 12x7x6cm Footnote: Modelled on 'Jim' the favourite chimpanzee in Kessingland Wildlife Park, this maquette opened up a private commission for 12 life size Chimps (which now live on bronze plinths in a large atrium space, across four storeys of an office in London). Based in Suffolk, Laurence Edwards trained at the Royal College of Art, where he studied bronze casting and sculpture with Sir Antony Caro. After winning a Henry Moore Bursary, the Angeloni Prize for Bronze Casting and an Intach Travelling Scholarship, he studied traditional casting techniques in India and Nepal, an experience that not only influenced his treatment of form and technique, but also gave him the necessary tools to establish his own atelier. Edwards is one of the few sculptors in the world to cast his own work in his own foundry.

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